Along with being a science geek, a language geek, a trivia geek, and a music geek, I also consider myself a typography geek. I’ve got thousands of free fonts on my computer that I’ve collected over many years and whenever I’m putting together a design for, say, a homemade Christmas card or a friend’s concert flyer, I first look to my fonts for inspiration.
My feeling for fonts run strong and deep. I’m a firm believer that the creator of Tempus San ITC, should be taken out into a field somewhere and shot. In the groin.
And somewhere in my youth I picked up a taste for strange and dangerous cheeses. I am a rabid caseophile. I have a “cheese budget”. And I don’t know if it’s a word (and I’m too lazy to look it up right now) but the “Frenchier” the cheese, the better, though my local wine-country cheese makers have been creating some mighty fine and disgusting cheeses lately.
Did you know that many French women continue to eat runny moldy cheeses throughout their pregnancy? I’ve also heard that they drink wine and smoke cigarettes too, but I’ve got to say that the cheese thing seems more dangerous. I’ve had a few blue cheeses that took the top of my head clean off and one particularly disgusting goat cheese that catapulted me into a higher plane of being for a few days. A gruyere killed my little brother. A stilton took my virginity.
I may be slightly exaggerating.
Anyway, there must be a few people out there that admire the simple beauty of typography and the complex tastes of fine cheese, and for those people (and any others who just like to test themselves) I present a game for your edification and enjoyment…
I got 78% after 100 questions. Go here to begin: http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org/ and post your score in the comments. If you do better than me, I shall call you my cheesy superior. Go!
Tags: cheese, font, french, Typography
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I’m right there with you when it comes to typography. I just watched the Helvetica documentary this week.
73% with 201 questions left.
Amber – Helvetica rocks. Haven’t seen the documentary, though I’ve heard a lot about it. Such a simple and classic font. So you probably know of the Helvetica Moleskine notebook… it’s the holy grail of typography geekdom.
Laur – Heck yeah. That’s pretty freaking good. I had to guess on a few and got lucky. This test is harder than Chinese algebra, as my father might say.
I too, have a love for cheese and typography, but I must admit, my performance on that test was certainly below average. I also have a budget for cheese. There are two things my roommate and I always purchase at the store: cheese and tonic water. We pretty much survive off of dairy products (I include icecream, milk chocolate, and pizza in that category) and the calories contained in a vodka tonic.
Laura, I’m now officially a fan of yours.